What are the customs of celebrating the Little New Year on the 23rd today? When is the Little New Year's Eve in 2019?
Introduction: In our country’s tradition, important festivals generally have many customs, and the same is true for the Little New Year. So what are the customs of celebrating the Little New Year on the 23rd today, and when is the Little New Year's Eve in 2019? Shuimoxiansheng.com has carefully compiled detailed information about the twelfth lunar month of 2018. If you want to know the auspicious and inauspicious days in the twelfth lunar month, just visit Shuimoxiansheng.com.What are the customs for celebrating the Little New Year today, the 23rd?1. Worship the Kitchen God <br /> According to folklore, every year when the Little New Year comes, the Kitchen God goes to heaven to report the good and evil deeds of the family to the Jade Emperor, who will reward or punish them. Therefore, when sending off the Kitchen God, people put candies, clean water, beans and hay on the table in front of the Kitchen God statue. Among them, the last three are preparations for the Kitchen God's mount for his ascension to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, you should melt Guandong sugar with fire and apply it on the Kitchen God's mouth to make his mouth "sweeter" and prevent him from saying bad things to the Jade Emperor. In addition, on the night of New Year’s Eve, the Kitchen God will come to the human world with other gods to celebrate the New Year. There are also ceremonies of “welcoming the Kitchen God” and “welcoming the gods” on that day.2. Dust <br /> This is also a Little New Year custom shared by both the south and the north. On the day of Little New Year, every household gets up at dawn, sweeps the house, cleans the windows, washes clothes, scrubs pots and pans, and does a thorough cleaning. A few days before the Little New Year, every family cleans their house to prevent the Kitchen God from taking the dirt away. This custom can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago, when it was a religious ceremony for the Han ancestors to drive away plague demons and pray for health. Later, because "dust" and "old" are homophones, sweeping the dust means sweeping away the old things, which refers to both the old dirt in the courtyard and the unpleasantness encountered in the old year. 3. Pasting window flowers <br /> A custom of the Little New Year in the north. Cutting and pasting window paper-cuts is the most popular folk activity. The contents include various stories about animals and plants, such as magpies climbing on plum trees, peacocks playing with peonies, lions rolling embroidered balls, three sheep (yang) bringing good luck, two dragons playing with pearls, mandarin ducks playing in the water, etc. Pasting window decorations means that the new year will be better and better. After cutting the window paper-cuts, pasting them in the freshly cleaned house will naturally add a lot of joy to the home. 4. Eating dumplings <br /> A custom of the Little New Year in the north. Dumplings are present in almost every festival in the north. Eating dumplings on the eve of the Chinese New Year means "sending off dumplings in the wind". People in mountainous areas mostly eat cakes and buckwheat noodles. In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, it is popular to eat fried corn. There is a folk saying that goes, "On the 23rd, don't eat fried corn; on the New Year's Day - eat all of it." People like to stick the fried corn together with maltose and freeze it into large chunks, which taste crispy and sweet. 5. Eat sugar melon, maltose, and sesame candy <br /> A custom of the Little New Year in the north. Sugar melons, maltose, sesame candy and other foods were originally meant to be put on the mouth of the Kitchen God, but gradually they became must-eat snacks for children during the Little New Year. There is a saying in Northwest Shanxi that goes "Eat sesame candy on the 23rd. If you can't have any, bite your fingers." When is the 2019 Chinese New Year's Eve?Monday, January 28, 2019 (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Dog, 5 days away from the 2018 Lunar New Year)The concept and date of Xiaonian vary from place to place. It is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in the south. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, both "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are called Xiaonian. In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is called Xiaonian. In parts of Yunnan, it is the 16th day of the first lunar month, and in some ethnic minority areas in the southwest and north it is New Year's Eve. The Little New Year also means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods and get ready to have a good new year in a clean manner. It means that the new year will have a new look and expresses the Chinese working people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and to welcome good luck and fortune. The new wave of annual fortune in 2019 has already changed. Calculate your own fortune in advance, correct your mistakes if there are any, and encourage yourself if there are none, so that the new year will be smooth and safe. To calculate your new fortune in 2019, please click on the [Premium Calculation] below to learn about your new fortune. I wish you peace and happiness in the new year! |
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